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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter I: The interests of the Republic of Letters in the Middle East, 1550-1700 -- Chapter II: On the relation between the Ottoman Empire and the West European Republic of Letters (l7th-18th centuries) -- Chapter III: The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in the unpublished and printed writings of Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) -- Chapter IV: Pietro della Valle's Latin Geography of Safavid Iran (1624-1628): Introduction (with Volkmar Schüller) -- Chapter V: Early modern Western European travellers in the Middle East and their reports about the sciences -- Chapter VI: Pride and prejudice: the invention of a 'historiography of science' in the Ottoman and Safavid empires by European travellers and writers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Chapter VII: Peiresc's interests in the Middle East and Northern Africa in respect to geography and cartography -- Chapter VIII: Astronomy a temptation? On early modem encounters across the Mediterranean Sea -- Index.

AbstractThis article studies five well-known portolan charts of the fourteenth century, produced at Genoa, Ciutat de Majorca and Venice, with regard to the knowledge their makers used for visualizing physical and human geography in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and Iraq. It studies four so-called compound images to understand the cultural background of the chosen pictorial and verbal representation instead of analyzing single geographical objects. The results of the analysis strongly suggest that the portolan chart-makers had access to visual material from several cultures around the Mediterranean and Western Asia and that they cooperated creatively with (unknown) members of larger social, economic and cultural networks.

The Persian tradition of Euclid'sElementsis closely connected with the Arabic transmission of the work in Iran, Central Asia and India. This tradition has multiple starting points. Naīr al-Dīnūsī's Arabic edition had a profound impact, but it was one of several Arabic versions that served as the basis for Persian translations. At the institutional level both the Arabic and the Persian traditions flourished in different spaces—at the courts, in themadrasa, and in the sphere of collectors. Emphasizing the continued importance of court patronage, this paper explores the specifics of spatial and temporal coordinates in the transmission and transformation of Euclid'sElementsin Islamic Iran.